Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... Blackcap and Garden Warbler , both of which have followed cultivation , and now are found commonly in localities where twenty years ago they were either unknown or stated to be extremely rare . The Blackcap , like the Nightingale ...
... Blackcap and Garden Warbler , both of which have followed cultivation , and now are found commonly in localities where twenty years ago they were either unknown or stated to be extremely rare . The Blackcap , like the Nightingale ...
Página 48
... Blackcap as soon as the bird comes in view . The black crown of the male and the brown crown of the female suffice to distinguish the species amongst every other of our summer migrants . There is something very peculiar , too , about ...
... Blackcap as soon as the bird comes in view . The black crown of the male and the brown crown of the female suffice to distinguish the species amongst every other of our summer migrants . There is something very peculiar , too , about ...
Página 49
... Blackcap is no exception to the rule . The birds take some pains , however , to conceal it , and both male and female bestow a good deal of trouble upon it . It is generally placed a few feet from the ground , and is composed of dry ...
... Blackcap is no exception to the rule . The birds take some pains , however , to conceal it , and both male and female bestow a good deal of trouble upon it . It is generally placed a few feet from the ground , and is composed of dry ...
Página 52
... Blackcap and Garden Warbler in being white , spotted , chiefly at the larger end , with ash - grey . The bird may be briefly de- scribed as a large form of the Blackcap , ex- ceeding it by half an inch in total length , and by a quarter ...
... Blackcap and Garden Warbler in being white , spotted , chiefly at the larger end , with ash - grey . The bird may be briefly de- scribed as a large form of the Blackcap , ex- ceeding it by half an inch in total length , and by a quarter ...
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... Blackcap migrates almost due north and south , the Orphean Warbler migrates west- wards and northwards from the east and south- east , and vice versa . In North - west India , par- ticularly in the neighbourhood of Umballah , it is ...
... Blackcap migrates almost due north and south , the Orphean Warbler migrates west- wards and northwards from the east and south- east , and vice versa . In North - west India , par- ticularly in the neighbourhood of Umballah , it is ...
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
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amongst Anthus appearance April arrival Blackcap Blyth breed British Birds British Islands Canon Tristram Chiff-chaff claw coast colour common congeners Cuckoo eastward eggs Egypt England Europe feathers Flycatcher frequently Garden Warbler genus Grasshopper Warbler grey ground habits hatched haunts Hist Hoopoe Howard Saunders Ibis India insects instance Ireland June Landrail Lapland Lesser Whitethroat Lord Lilford male Malta Martin Meadow Pipit Mediterranean migration month naturalists neighbourhood nest Nightingale Nightjar Norfolk North Africa noticed observed occasionally occurrence Ornithology Palestine palustris plumage Professor Newton rare Redstart Reed Warbler regular summer remarked resembles Rock Pipit says Scotland season Sedge Warbler seen September Shetland shot song southward species specimens spotted spring and autumn Stonechat strepera summer migrants summer visitant Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist